Ken Burns

Hammond B3 master Reuben Wilson Jams the Beastie Boys

Howl Howl Howl

Paper Trails

Re-Enacting History

The election of Barack Obama imbues The America Play with new meaning.

War is Hell

The election of Barack Obama imbues The America Play with new meaning.

Definition-Defying Display

North Beach Jazz Festival splits the genre wide open

Repertory Film Listings

North Beach Jazz Festival splits the genre wide open

Letter-Box Edition

Wordplay explores the cult of the crossword puzzle

Repertory Film Listings

Wordplay explores the cult of the crossword puzzle

Because of Dixie Win

CSA envisions life today if the South had won the war

Cameron Crowing

CSA envisions life today if the South had won the war

Say-It-Ain't-So Joe

Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball? And Billy Beane and his Oakland A's? And you, too, if you think the statistical revolution that's overwhelmed Major League Baseball has any

Smells Like Indie Spirit

Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

Triosk Meets Jan Jelinek

'1+3+1'

Zoom Lens

As IndieFest proves, making movies is a bitch

Checked Out

There's a story behind the Main Library's sluggish DVD lending policy, and it ain't pretty

GIFTS

DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

The Sixth Annual Latino Film Festival

A special program of three films about the Jewish diaspora

Best Place to Impersonate Sarah Jessica Parker

Cafe Qué Tal

Kind of Code Blue

Is jazz dead? Local experts search for signs of life.

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

The Brooklyn Sax Quartet unleashes a dense matrix of polyrhythms and buttery tones

Primary Colors

A three day conference examines jazz and race

Projected, Not Stirred

How much does Peter Moody love martinis? He's spent 13 years making a movie about them, if that tells you anything.

Capsule reviews

At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip

Might See TV

Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

Reel World

The Horn Blows at Midnight, Age of Consent, The Big Carnival

Night + Day

The Horn Blows at Midnight, Age of Consent, The Big Carnival

Stake Tartare

The Horn Blows at Midnight, Age of Consent, The Big Carnival

Silver Mining

Digging for the genuine article at the Telluride Film Festival's 25th anniversary celebration

Baseball's Orphans

Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

Stage

Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

Second Time Around

Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

Reel World

Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

"Treme": New HBO series from "The Wire" creators

Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

Stuffed

Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

Tom Waits No Longer To Be Inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Instagram username TomWaitsForNoMan (Wait, is that headline confusing? "No longer" modifies the verb "waits," not the compound adjective "to be inducted." Sorry if that seemed sensationalistic. But while we're on the subject of names that parse as verbs, consider the difficulty of writing a snappy h ... More >>

Wynton Marsalis at SF Jazz Reminds Us Why We Need Wynton Marsalis

​Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraDavies Symphony HallSunday, June 19, 2011Look, Wynton. You've taken a lot of shit over the years for rankling the people who -- like you -- worry over ideas of authenticity in music almost as much as they worry over music itself. They carp at your insistence that E ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings July 27-August 2

​Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraDavies Symphony HallSunday, June 19, 2011Look, Wynton. You've taken a lot of shit over the years for rankling the people who -- like you -- worry over ideas of authenticity in music almost as much as they worry over music itself. They carp at your insistence that E ... More >>